Cookies Recipes

A plateful of cookies will go fast at any Fourth of July dessert table. Get creative with our Cookies With a Bang recipe, or browse through our many other Fourth of July cookie suggestions for the perfect, easy dessert.

 
 
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Chocolate-Chip Cookie Pizza

From Family Circle

This five-ingredient dessert is perfect for kids' parties. It's a giant chocolate chp cookie topped with frosting, candy, and peanuts.

Chocolate-Chip Cookie Pizza

Ultimate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

From Family Circle

These drop cookies earned the title "ultimate" because they include everything anyone would want in a cookie--peanut butter, oatmeal, crispy rice cereal, and chocolate.

Ultimate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Red Velvet Whoopie Pie

From Better Homes and Gardens

Dating from the 1920s, creamy filling mounded between two big puffy cookies became a phenomenon. This Christmas version of the recipe has big taste yet smaller size.

Red Velvet Whoopie Pie

Sugar Cookies

From Fine Cooking Magazine

This dough is not only great for cut-out cookies, it also acts as the delicious bottom layer of the Florentines.

Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

At Christmas try making this soft, lightly lemony cookie recipe and serve them with hot cocoa for dipping. Chill the dough at least 1 hour to ensure that it's easy to roll out and cut.

Sugar Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

From Fitness

Canola oil is used in place of butter to make these cookies. It has healthy fats, making this cookie recipe a good alternative to the typical butter-filled version.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies

From Diabetic Living

This irresistible peanut butter cookie recipe contains no flour. For Christmas or special occasions, imprint them with cookie cutters to fit the season instead of the star-shaped cutter.

Peanut Butter Cookies

Tender Sugar Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

These butter cookies bake longer and at a lower temperature than most cookies. To keep them tender, don't let them brown.

Tender Sugar Cookies

Margarita Slices

From Better Homes and Gardens

The flavors that make margaritas so enticing--tequila, lime, and orange liqueur--accomplish the same for these crisp half-moon cookies rimmed with sugar.

Margarita Slices

Almond Cookie Baskets with Melon

From Better Homes and Gardens

Sweet fruit drizzled with honey syrup and served in a crispy bowl makes this dessert seem indulgent, yet it only has 241 calories per serving.

Almond Cookie Baskets with Melon

New England Chocolate Chip Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies! These stand out thanks to the shortening and walnuts.

New England Chocolate Chip Cookies

Zingy Lime Flower Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

The fresh taste of lime flavors this rolled cookie in both the dough and icing. A summer treat the kids will love.

Zingy Lime Flower Cookies

Coffee-and-Cream Drops

From Better Homes and Gardens

Double the flavor in these little drops. Chocolate pieces go in the coffee-flavor dough, nuts in the chocolate.

Coffee-and-Cream Drops

Grannie's Old-Fashioned Butterscotch Bars

From Family Circle

These decadent dessert bars make a yummy any-occasion snack. Keep this recipe in mind the next time you want to thank a friend with a special food gift.

Grannie's Old-Fashioned Butterscotch Bars

Cherry Tassies

From Better Homes and Gardens

Perch bright red long-stemmed maraschino cherries in these tender pastry pouch cookies. In this recipe for cool Christmas glitz, sprinkle the baked tassies with coarse sugar.

Cherry Tassies

Banana Crunch Bars

From Better Homes and Gardens

Rum flavored bananas top a chocolate crust for these dessert bars.

Banana Crunch Bars

Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

These cookies are as hearty and spicy as the original ginger cookie recipe, but fat and calories have been drastically reduced.

Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies

Sugar Cookie Star Cutouts

From Better Homes and Gardens

This recipe features a star, but any cutter will do to create various Christmas cookie shapes out of this delicious dough.

Sugar Cookie Star Cutouts

Chocolaty Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

This cookie recipe layers the always popular combination of chocolate with a peanut butter filling into one delicious cookie.

Chocolaty Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies

Chocolate Malt Crinkles

From Parents

This cookie recipe has double chocolate flavor. The powdered sugar makes a pretty pattern when the cookies bake.

Chocolate Malt Crinkles

Potato Chip Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

Who doesn't love potato chips? Here they add a salty crunch to butter cookies.

Potato Chip Cookies

Tropical Pinwheels

From Better Homes and Gardens

These tropical cookie cutouts are bursting with pineapple, coconut, and buttery macadamia nuts.

Tropical Pinwheels

Date-Nut Icebox Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

Dates and black walnuts blend to create the richness in this brown sugar cookie recipe.

Date-Nut Icebox Cookies

Kooky Cookie Sandwiches

From Better Homes and Gardens

A little frosting spread between purchased cookies makes for a fun, easy dessert that kids can make and share.

Kooky Cookie Sandwiches

Pineapple and Macadamia Nut Shortbread

From Better Homes and Gardens

A drizzle of pineapple icing adds flavor and a festive look to this simple shortbread cookie recipe. A buttery-rich addition to a Christmas cookie tray.

Pineapple and Macadamia Nut Shortbread

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